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Advancing the Cost-Quality Frontier in Agentic AI // Krista Opsahl-Ong // Agents in Production 2025

Advancing the Cost-Quality Frontier in Agentic AI // Krista Opsahl-Ong // Agents in Production 2025

Krista Opsahl-Ong from Databricks introduces Agent Bricks, a platform designed to overcome the key challenges of productionizing enterprise AI agents. The talk covers common use cases, the difficult trade-offs between cost and quality, and how Agent Bricks uses automated evaluation and advanced optimization techniques to build cost-effective, high-performance agents.

On Engineering AI Systems that Endure The Bitter Lesson - Omar Khattab, DSPy & Databricks

On Engineering AI Systems that Endure The Bitter Lesson - Omar Khattab, DSPy & Databricks

Omar Khattab, creator of DSPy, reinterprets the 'Bitter Lesson' for AI engineering, arguing that the key to building robust and enduring AI systems is to move beyond brittle prompt engineering. He advocates for a declarative, modular approach that separates the fundamental program logic from the rapidly changing landscape of LLMs, optimizers, and inference techniques.